Model investigation of neuronal mechanisms of discrimination between two tactile stimuli in snails

Logunov, D. B.; Konnov, M I

doi:10.1007/bf01066119

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“…Each creature has particular types of perceptions, by which a (limited) part of local information is extracted for the understanding of circumstances. Taking tactile perception for example, mimosas (Cahill Jr et al 2013) and snails (Logunov and Konnov 1983) can only sense the strength of pressure, ants (Ratnieks 2007) and bees (Esch et al 2001) have evolved to communicate through tactile perception, while gorillas (Clark et al 2019) and dogs (Byrne et al 2017) can identify intention and emotion through touch stimuli conducted from haptic cells in their skin.…”

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The perceived effects of augmented trail sensing and mood recognition abilities in a human–fish biohybrid system

Hu¹,

Yang²,

Zhi-hua³

et al. 2022

Bioinspir. Biomim.

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The use of technologies to enhance human and animal perceptions has been explored in frontier research about artificial life and biohybrid systems. These attempts have revealed that augmented sensing abilities can emerge new interactions between individuals within or across species. Nevertheless, the diverse effects of different augmented capabilities are less examined and compared. In this work, we built a human-fish biohybrid system that enhanced the ornamental fish’s vision by projecting human participants onto the arena background. In contrast, human participants were equipped with a mix-reality device, which visualized fish individuals’ trails (representing situation-oriented perceptions) and emotions (representing communication-oriented perceptions). We investigated the impacts of the two enhanced perceptions on the human side and documented the perceived effects in three aspects. First, both augmented perceptions considerably increase participants’ attention toward ornamental fish, and the impact of emotion recognition is more potent than trail sense. Secondly, the frequency of human-fish interactions increases with the equipped perceptions. And the mood recognition ability on the human side can indirectly promote the recorded positive mood of fish. Thirdly, most participants mentioned they felt closer to those fish with the mood recognition ability, even if we added some mistakes in the accuracy of mood recognition. In contrast, the addition of trail sensing ability cannot bring in a similar effect on the mental bond. These findings reveal several aspects of different perceived effects between the enhancements of communication-oriented and situation-oriented perceptions.

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